The Outcasts of Penikese Island, playing Tuesday to Saturday at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse through August 26, tenderly restores to light a shadowed episode of institutional cruelty from more than a century ago.

The summer theatre season continues at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, despite a terminal failure of the main stage air-handling system last month.

Three nights remain to enjoy laughter, music and Shakespearean shenanigans under the open sky at the Tisbury Amphitheatre, where Twelfth Night has been held over for an extra weekend.

While treading water in the open ocean off the coast of San Diego, playwright Mona Mansour and her nephew debated the morality of war.

The Martha's Vineyard Playhouse has sold out its two weekend readings of a new play based on Oak Bluffs history, starring award-winning actor S. Epatha Merkerson.

The legacy of Arnie Reisman lives on in many corners of the Island, but especially at the Poetry Cafe.